DOPPELGANGER: Here's Northrop Frye et al's definition of this term in The Harper Handbook to Literature: An alter ego; a second passional self haunting one's rational psyche; from German, "double-goer." Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) had already seen a perpetual contention between humankind's evil heart and rational head [Note: Kant is also one of the important figures in defining thesublime.] and romances had for centuries paired good and evil identities.... Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866) Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" (1912) Conrad's Heart of Darkness Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
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ONE MINUTE FRANKENSTEIN:
Walton:
Dear Margaret: My ship picked up this guy. He RULES.
Frankenstein:
I discovered the secret of life, and everyone died. (dies)
Frankenstein's Monster:
Inexplicably, I have become suicidal. (jumps out a window)
THE END
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Here's Northrop Frye et al's definition of this term in The Harper Handbook to Literature:
An alter ego; a second passional self haunting one's rational psyche;
from German, "double-goer."
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) had already seen a perpetual contention between humankind's evil heart and rational head [Note: Kant is also one of the important figures in defining thesublime.] and romances had for centuries paired good and evil identities....
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" (1912)
Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
What others can you identify?
Doppelganger-1.doc
Frankenstein clip 2
ONE MINUTE FRANKENSTEIN:
Walton:
Dear Margaret: My ship picked up this guy. He RULES.
Frankenstein:
I discovered the secret of life, and everyone died. (dies)
Frankenstein's Monster:
Inexplicably, I have become suicidal. (jumps out a window)
THE END